7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a crystal clear amber to copper body that supports a thin light tan head. The modest aroma offers up sweet malts, spicy hops and a rye sensation intermingled with the hops. The taste delivers a smooth palate and quickly gets into pine hops and a spicy rye goodness. It gets a little floral hop like around the edges and then slides into the finish with a thin yet adequate malty backbone. Solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2015
at 19:44
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured up on tap at the brewery where it exhibits a clear pale gold body that supports a near white head. The aroma offers up a nice hit of wheat, a bit of lemon and a salty sort of sensation. The taste is on the bright side with a lemon like sourness, an apricot note and then quickly heading into wheat and saltiness. This is refreshing and offers plenty of depth to keep it interesting. Pretty solid.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2015
at 19:42
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft. Rich amber beer with a dark cream head. Caramel aroma. Caramel and dark malt flavor with light grapefruit. Medium bodied. Caramel and light cocoa lingers with light dark malts and light grapefruit.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2015
at 23:01
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Amber beer with a cream head. Light grapefruit aroma. Grapefruit and caramel flavor. Medium bodied. Decent bitterness. Light grapefruit and light caramel linger with light pine.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Apr 2015
at 22:58
9.4/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9.5
Poured up on tap at the 2015 edition of the AZ Strong Beer Festival where it exhibits a nice deep mahogany colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up thick malts, molasses, slivers of toffee and then prunes and figs and other inviting sweet smelling dark fruity esters. Wow. The taste begins smooth and sweet with thick malts and getting quickly into molasses and then flowing into prunes and dates and a little bit of cherries. Behind all of those delectable notes is a wafer thin tartness that has to be the Brett that is banging around in here. At the finish it pulls up a wonderful caramel sort of toffee note that just takes this to another level, oh my! This is a dynamite English Barleywine. I ended up getting back in line over and over and over again to get more and more of this wonderful brew. I think I was in line for this 7 or 8 times. YUM! This could easily be a 5.0 but I tend to have a very high threshold for handing out 10’s for aroma and/or flavor.
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Apr 2015
at 18:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is pine, fruit, malt, caramel. Flavour is pine, fruit, malt, caramel, citrus, grapefruit. Bitter finish. Nice beer.
Tried
on 28 Sep 2014
at 23:53
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
[ As Dragoon IPA ].Clear medium yellow orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, pale malt, moderate to heavy hoppy, orange - citrus, grapefruit. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration, grapefruit, fruity hops, hoppy, dry. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20140516]
Tried
on 06 Sep 2014
at 02:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Reviewed from notes. This was from my AZ trip back in April this year.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy orange to amber color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some light lacing trickling along the glass.
The smell had a floral and citrus hoppiness up front letting some light caramel malts try to balance but still the hops are on the main stage.
The taste was a very nice bittersweet floral to citrus flavoring with a delicate light extra fruitiness.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but placed itself on the harshness as it rolled over my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA well worthy of having again.
This was poured into a pint glass.
The appearance was a nice looking hazy orange to amber color with a one finger white foamy head that dissipated within about a minute leaving some light lacing trickling along the glass.
The smell had a floral and citrus hoppiness up front letting some light caramel malts try to balance but still the hops are on the main stage.
The taste was a very nice bittersweet floral to citrus flavoring with a delicate light extra fruitiness.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a fairly decent sessionability about it. The carbonation was somewhat sharp but placed itself on the harshness as it rolled over my tongue.
Overall, I say this was a pretty good AIPA well worthy of having again.
Tried
on 17 Jul 2014
at 00:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours cloudy orange with a small white head. Aroma is pine and slight grapefruity. Bitter, fruity, solid hoppy and grapefruity. Ends dry, bitter and slight herbal pine hoppy.
Tried
on 17 May 2014
at 07:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours slightly hazy amber with airy white head. Clear aroma of hops and citrus, with subtle fruity notes. Intense, bitter, hoppy flavour, with notes of citrus and subtle round, fruity touches. Lingering, bitter aftertaste. A nice one.
Tried
on 16 May 2014
at 12:43